Bright Brewery Toasts New Facility

Bright Brewery Toasts New Facility with Antimicrobial Flooring

Bright Brewery installs 1,500 m2 of Flowfresh flooring in its new facility

Flowfresh is popular choice of brewery flooring within Australia's booming craft beer industry

Flowfresh is ideal for brewery conditions due to its robust, hygienic properties

A craft brewery boom is sweeping Australia, with beer drinkers moving away from well-known corporate brands in favour of smaller brewers with more unique flavours and history.

According to industry figures, over the past two years, one small brewery has opened each week.

With Victoria’s northeast being prime hops-growing country, it’s no wonder there’s a handful of impressive breweries to be discovered among the hills. In Bright, there is the aptly named Bright Brewery, which has been brewing ales with local hops and fresh mountain water since 2005.

The brewery and bar began operations in two small tin sheds, but in 2012 it gained a new and much-expanded look with 24 taps, multiple seating areas and a view into the brewery.

Past the usual ambers, pales, porters and witbiers, beer enthusiasts can lock lips with a Pumpkin Harvest Ale (brewed with Styrian pumpkins grown by in nearby Ovens) or a Wandi Nut Brown Ale (made with walnuts from The Artisan Mill in Ovens). Try a tasting tray of six brews before opting for a pot, schooner or pint of your favourite.

Recently, Bright Brewery has constructed a brand new; purpose designed and built brewing facility, with excellent consideration given to drain placement and location of the mezzanine platform, to ensure efficient production.

As part of the project, a total 1,500 m2 of the hygienic and antimicrobial cementitious polyurethane range Flowfresh from Flowcrete has been installed.

600 m2 of the slip resistant Flowfresh SR was installed in varying thicknesses across the heavy-duty areas of the brewery in Warm Buff. These areas required a robust system, which would handle both acids and cleaning chemicals and the thermal changes associated with fermentation and strict hygiene controls.

A further 900 m2 of Flowfresh Sealer was applied in the light duty walkways and passageways in Tile Red which would stand up to frequent foot traffic all whilst providing a hygienic platform underfoot.

Flowfresh is a line of HACCP International certified; antimicrobial treated cementitious urethane flooring designed predominantly for the food and beverage industry.

The permanence of Flowfresh’s bacteria killing property was put to the test when it was analysed according to the ISO 22196 standard, which measures the efficacy of antibacterial-treated surfaces. As part of this test, samples of Flowfresh were hot washed and abraded multiple times, over and above the ISO 22196 requirements.

This intensive abuse was undertaken to recreate the reality of what a floor in a food plant would be subjected to and Flowfresh apparently ‘more than proved that it was able to survive such conditions and maintain its superior hygiene credentials’.

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Flowcrete Australia has offices in Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne and is part of Flowcrete Asia Pacific, one of the four divisions that make up Flowcrete Group Ltd.

Flowcrete Group Ltd. is a world leader in the manufacture of seamless industrial and commercial resin floor, wall and coving solutions as well as other specialist coating technologies. Flowcrete Group Ltd. has international manufacturing facilities in Europe and Africa as well as Central and South East Asia.

Flowcrete's ambitious and dedicated team, led by President Craig Brookes, is inspired by excellence in people, products and service as well as continual innovation and sustainable growth. Flowcrete continues to use its global expertise to introduce environmentally friendly, hygienic and aesthetically attractive floors to create a better and more sustainable world.

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